294. Click On This Ad To Save This Child

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June 9th, 2025

1 hr 15 secs

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  • Alex
  • Shannon

Topics:

Microtopics:

  • Alien Clay.
  • Gravity Falls.
  • Tryharding at Duolingo.
  • Removing the popsicle sticks in the right order or the king dies in lava.
  • Writing a solitaire game generator and uploading 30,000 solitaires to the app store.
  • Ads that are not even pretending to not be falsely advertising to you.
  • Mobile game advertisers all pretending that their games are the same non-existent game genre.
  • Yeah! You Want "Those Games," Right? So Here You Go! Now, Let's See You Clear Them!
  • People saying "that ad for a game where you pull out popsicle sticks until a king doesn't die looks pretty good but when I click on it it's a completely different game."
  • Lying to consumers in the 80s vs. lying to consumers today.
  • Ads that are just two horrifying images to get your adrenalin spiking.
  • Screaming Tamagotchi.
  • The Paw Patrol diagetically being funded by real life Paw Patrol merch sales.
  • Maximizing emotional whiplash when it doesn't matter which two emotions they are.
  • Having a week to prepare for a one way trip to Northern Italy in 1326.
  • Going on a trip and bringing along your undeveloped Broca's area.
  • Bootlegging reproducing GMO crop seeds in Renaissance Italy.
  • Wizard/Prophecy Person.
  • 21st Century Traveling Merchants.
  • Bringing your jar of penicillin mold to the 14th century.
  • Being stranded in Renaissance Italy and becoming travelling minstrels.
  • Larger bearded guy that wears suspenders (under a graphic tee)
  • When were you born? The 14th century. Fuck you.
  • Bringing a snack to the spooky extraterrestrial from the planet Vulcan who lives in the woods.
  • Big ol' dogs.
  • Non-electronic megaphones.
  • A little top you can spin that's made of grandpa.
  • A magic genie that can grant any wish as it's for a small striated plastic trinket.
  • Getting turned into Redstone after you die.
  • A poorly-made fidget spinner that used to be your husband.
  • Shipping ashes and asking that ashes be put into things.
  • The sloughed off skin cells coating everything you send in the mail.
  • A shitty fidget spinner that just happens to have some human remains in it.
  • Where human composting is allowed.
  • Places it's no longer legal to bury a body.
  • The problem with imbuing symbols with value.
  • An alternative wedding ring that you switch to as necessary.
  • A plant that is a metaphor for death.
  • Grandpa living forever by being repeatedly melted down and 3D printed into a new toy when you get sick of the old once.
  • Bringing 3D printing back to 14th century Italy to revolutionize reliquaries.
  • Giving the world both Frog Fractions and Topics.
  • How many people you pass on the street each day are wearing suspenders under their shirt.
  • Hip Clips Style Under Ups.
  • A poem that's in the bucket twice.
  • Love is a seed and lust is a bird ravenous for seeds.
  • Burying the word sorry and seeing what grows.
  • Poetry that's just a paragraph of text.
  • What you're going to be if you eat the fruit of the sorry fruit.
  • Trying to imit inimitable things.
  • There's a lot of different women and they all want different things. (Except they all want to travel back in time.)
  • My Mother's Savage Daughter.
  • Girls only want one thing: to not be found on the Internet.
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